Darin Strauss Quotes
In Minneapolis, I learned that there are more theaters per square mile than in any U.S. city but New York, and we also had great Midwestern beef in our salads in a plaza overlooking the national headquarters of Target, Inc.
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Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
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Everybody grows but me.
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When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.
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There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.
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I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.
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When I first started doing press, one of the things people started pushing was this idea that I'd somehow escaped something. And I was really offended, because I hadn't escaped anything.
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As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility - which I do.
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I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won't let me do. Like they won't set fire to me. They won't like let me jump off a 20 story building. There are certain big stunts that it's just impossible to get insurance to let me do, but for the most part I'd say I do probably 75% of my stuff.
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For 50 percent of Americans marriage is forever, for the rest of us there is another adventure.
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Listening to great music and art inspires me and recharges me.
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The Indian community in Canada has integrated much better than the Indian community in United States. They've become really Canadian at the same time as keeping all their Indian characters and customs and social groups.
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I would like to say that it is not important what you have, but how you enjoy it.
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In Minneapolis, I learned that there are more theaters per square mile than in any U.S. city but New York, and we also had great Midwestern beef in our salads in a plaza overlooking the national headquarters of Target, Inc.
